160 KOTA GLANGGI. 
son of MmmBana was distasteful to the daughter. In the meantime 
the son of Raja Usut of Bér’a was out hunting one day in the 
neighbourhood of Kota Glanggi and accidentally got sight of the 
intended bride; straightway his breast was fired with passion, and 
he with his attendants loitered about the neighbouring forest for 
days until he could see her again. Fortune favoured him, and being 
one of your bold wooers, he seized and carried her off by force. 
The young lady took kindly to her captor, and was eventually 
carried off by him to his father’s court, after some unavailing ef- 
forts to gain Raja Guanear’s consent to their union. Here they 
lived happily for a short time, until the rival lover, hearing of the 
abduction, got his father to appeal to Raja Guancer to have the 
girl restored, and as neither the daughter herself nor her bold win- 
ner would consent, a war ensued between Raja Usun of Bera and 
Raja Guanear, because Raja Usun, like a sensible man, said that 
if the girl liked his son they were now married, and he did not see 
why he should go against his son for the sake of Raja MemsBane. 
The result was that seven of Granaei’s best men got killed, and as 
he was not very warm on the subject of the abduction, seeing his 
daughter was pleased he resolved to get out of the embroilment as 
creditably as he could; accordingly, he wrote a letter to Raja 
MempBanea of Lépis representing that it really was his affair and 
recommending him to go to war with Raja Bird on his own 
account, and this, poor old Mempane did and was killed, whilst 
Graneet and Usur of Béra became reconciled, and the bride and 
bridegroom lived happily ever afterwards. I give you the story as it 
was told to me, without any attempt at improvement, and just as I 
took it down in my note-book. 
Huxv Raves, 
Interior of Pahang, 26th July, 1882. 
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